"I think baseball is such a team game that it's an easy way for guys to express their personalities, " said Sal Fasano, a former backup catcher whose burly 'stache was inspired by old samurai movies that he watched as kid.
It's no surprise all this could lead to Michael Cera and Jason Schwartzman clashing swords in the comic-book-and-videogame-inspired movie "Scott Pilgrim vs. the World" (2010), or Emily Browning facing a giant samurai in "Sucker Punch" (2011).